Word: oshkosh
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...Oshkosh Trucks...
...competitor which did not last was the Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., founded by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich...
President Rogers, 52, twelve years an osteopath, an outstanding citizen of Oshkosh, Wis., where he is president of the Kiwanis Club, vice president of the Welfare Board and commodore of the Power Boat Club, had had a happy, busy, exciting week. Of the 9,000 osteopaths in the U. S., over 2,000 were at the convention. Their special bypath of curing disease by actual might & main is, they feel, on the upgrade. And they looked to President Rogers to keep pushing it higher by metaphorical might & main...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Mrs. John Putzer, 41-year-old wife of a WPA worker, gave birth to her sixth pair of twins, won a pair of beds from a local cinemansion which had offered one bed to the mother of the first baby born after the opening of The Country Doctor. Said fruitful Mrs. Putzer, mother of 17: "We never pick names now until we know how many we're going to need...
Carl Laemmle arrived in the U. S. from Laupheim, Germany when he was 17. For the next 22 years he struggled manfully in the clothing business at Oshkosh, Wis., managed to save up $2,500, In 1906, when he was 39, encouraged by an advertising man named Robert Cochrane, he opened a Chicago nickelodeon called The White Front. Six months later, he had a string of them and his own film exchange. From 1909 to 1914, Laemmle and his famed Independent Motion Pictures Co. ("IMP") fought the patents company which then threatened to get control of the industry...